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TIL Volcano Surfing or Volcano Boarding, is a sport performed on volcano slopes. Potential dangers include falling off and getting cut by the rough volcanic ash, breathing poisonous gasses, contracting histoplasmosis (otherwise known as 'caver's disease'), or being hit by flying molten lava

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